This blog began as a description of our life in Al Ain, UAE (United Arab Emirates). Brn worked at the UAE University Libraries Deanship for three years and Bss homeschooled our four children, D, B, P, and O. After returning to the the USA for five years, we are living in Abu Dhabi now.

2005/09/07

Hurricanes, Walmart, and Pop-Tarts

This post at Marginal Revolution about Walmart's reaction reminded me of something I saw last year on an American news show. Walmart keeps a database of buying patterns at its stores so that it can know what to ship where. One of their employees discovered that whenever a hurricane hit, the stores sold out of strawberry Poptarts. So now whenever a hurricane is approaching, they ship a whole mess of strawberry Poptarts to the region before hand so the stores will have enough.